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The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga by Ingrid Jonker
… became a giant travels through the whole world Without a pass …
EventSA is readmitted to the IOC
… (IOC). The terms included the abolition of Apartheid laws, the non-racial unification of sports bodies and …
Document 109 - G. H. Gool and J. A. La Guma, “Appeal of the National Liberation League for a National Convention of the Subject Peoples of South Africa”, The Liberator, September 1937
… into trade unions, but also subjected to the stigma of Pass Laws, irrespective of the standard of culture individually … that have brought us to this…
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… Transvaal. A Second Volksraad was created in 1890 and new laws were made. Uitlanders who had been naturalised for two … on the mines; any bills it put…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… Transvaal. A Second Volksraad was created in 1890 and new laws were made. Uitlanders who had been naturalised for two … on the mines; any bills it put…
Remarks by the President of the African National Congress Comrade JG Zuma to Worker`s Day Durban, 1 May 2015
… are protected in our Constitution and many progressive laws. Chief amongst these is the right of workers to form and … of COSATU and its affiliates over the…
The fight against passes continues
… try to give passes to the women. You didn't have to take a pass yet; it was not yet law. But the government told the employers not to employ you unless you…
ArticleThe Ottoman Empire
… Whilst all Muslims in the empire were governed by the laws of Islam and tried by Muslim courts, foreigners were …
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… police brutality, inferior education, segregation laws and the plight of the detainees. The police change …
ArticleA history of Soweto
… ease their movement to Johannesburg the government relaxed pass laws. Their arrival in Johannesburg added to the increased …
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Commandant General Louis Botha issue a proclamation in Pretoria
… The Burghers were part of the war as they would sometimes pass messages from one place to another, serving as a vital …
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… post. On 21 March 1960, at the launch of the PAC’s anti-pass campaign, Sobukwe resigned from his post as lecturer at …
The Indian People In South Africa: Facts: About The Ghetto Act
… India or South Africa, have Indians willingly submitted to laws and practices which brand them as inferior, or curtail … takes the form of defying unjust and…
EventRiots erupt in East London, Eastern Cape
… Mandela, Yusuf Dadoo and Walter Sisulu defied Apartheid laws in Johannesburg and other major city centres. The period …
EventJudgement is handed down in a landmark case
… cases contributed to the gradual dismantling of apartheid laws regulating movement and torture, and became part of the …
EventSeparate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 50 of 1968 is enacted
… nominated members. It had legislative powers to make laws affecting people socially constructed as Coloureds on …
EventNew SA Constitution takes effect
… Sharpeville, Gauteng on 10 December 1996. Among the laws contained by the Constitution is the Bill of Rights, …
EventArchbishop William Barnett issues a statement condemning Apartheid
… while being held indefinitely under Apartheid's detention laws. An eighth man died in hospital a week after being …
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… Cape Coloured persons. In the Transvaal and Free State laws are to be found the following words: " Kleuriing " , " … regime in Swaziland. He wrote me as…
No Arms for South Africa: Albert Luthuli, 8 May 1963
… country. They can be measured in the flood of repressive laws, destructive of human rights and human dignity, which … of arrests for statutory offences,…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… does not prohibit African workers, for the Conspiracy Laws have never been applied in South Africa. But under the … colour bar, and the innumerable legal…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… fighting campaigns on a number of fronts - challenging Pass Laws, the second-class status of Africans on trains, and laws prohibiting Africans from walking…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… a joint working committee to coordinate the women’s anti-pass campaign. Networks and meetings were organised with … a joint working committee to coordinate…
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
… Robert Sobukwe was arrested after the Sharpeville anti-pass campaign of 1960 and sentenced to three years in prison. …
EventThe Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces the lifting of the ‘72-hour curfew’
… on visiting blacks was one of the most hated apartheid laws. This curfew formed an integral part of influx-control …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… and son of Walter Sisulu, is arrested under security laws that provide for unlimited detention without trial. 31 … Langa Commissioner's Court in Cape Town…
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… conference, 31 March 1960 had been proclaimed as "Anti-Pass Day" when demonstrations against passes would be held … to launch their own "final and positive…
Event2000 Students march through Cape Town
… police brutality, inferior education and segregation laws, and called for the release of all political detainees. …
EventWorld No Tobacco Day is observed
… the average smoker spending R 400 a month on cigarettes. Laws discouraging smoking were introduced over the years and …
EventA memorandum containing a proposed constitutional dispensation is delivered to the CPRC
… nominated members. It had the legitimate right to make laws affecting Coloured people on finances, local government, …